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Sudoku Deluxe® Social – Board Game Review
Sudoku Deluxe® Social is a Board/Word/Travel game from Murka Contracting Limited, first launched in 23rd September 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 742+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sudoku Deluxe® Social Stand Out
Not just Sudoku… Sudoku Deluxe®! Hundreds of Sudoku books with thousands of puzzles each, all in one premium Sudoku app.
***** “If you enjoy Sudoku… This is the best sudoku game I've played.” -Stevie B.
***** “Best Sudoku I have ever played.” -Chrissyaz
***** “I have a couple of other sudoku games but this one is the best by far.” -Peps1945
***** “BEST APP, GREAT SOUND AND FEATURES!” -Schoollady61
***** “Really easy to use.” -Tes63
***** “I love this game.” -RickyGhotra
From the most trusted brand in Sudoku, Sudoku Deluxe® Social is the new, premium Sudoku experience handcrafted for your iPad and iPhone.
Sudoku Deluxe® Social is the most feature-rich Sudoku game in the App Store, with advanced tutorials, optional auto-pencil marks, branching tools, and tips to enhance your experience.
Sudoku Deluxe® Social lets you prove that your team is the smartest in the country with the exclusive Team Tournament. Add your Sudoku scores to those of your teammates to show the rest of the country who has the highest I.Q.
And it’s brought to you by Mobile Deluxe, the company that has specialized in mobile Sudoku since 2003.
PREMIUM FEATURES
- Best in class tools like optional Auto Pencil Marks and Branching to test possibilities.
-Team Tournament weekly competition for the highest I.Q.
-Beautiful HD Graphics.
-Play with friends on Facebook and GameCenter, or play solo.
- Dozens of themes expand your brain with unique visuals including the exclusive EmojiDoku®.
-Smart tools to customize and enhance play.
-Exercise your brain: Best-in-class tutorial for players of all skill levels.
-Best-in-class customer care for any questions.
Sudoku Deluxe® Social is the only leading Sudoku game to offer thousands of puzzles, unique themes, and a suite of tools and features to make your Sudoku experience the best possible.
And now it’s social: Have fun playing with friends, or play solo. Use Facebook and GameCenter to keep up with your friends and work together to win the Team Tournament.
Your mobile device has advanced… isn’t it time your Sudoku did, too?
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sudoku Deluxe® Social is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th November 2020
Recent improvements include:
What's new in Sudoku Deluxe® Social?!
- Native support for new iPhones!
- Improved Leaderboards!
- Bug Fixes.
Download & Availability
Sudoku Deluxe® Social is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sudoku Deluxe® Social on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Would be nice to have a way to link your Facebook account with out having to complete a puzzle and choose to share it in order to link it with Facebook. Now that we did that all our progress is back.
There have been no new games for over six months, in order to continue playing we deleted the app to re-download and replay games Ive already played. But there is one MAJOR problem with that. We have purchased the upgrade, but after deleting and restarting the app the upgrade doesnt have an option to restore purchases. Frustrating.
We are a kid trying to get robux.
Screen turns black and does not respond.
Our game doesnt work after our phone was updated.
App no longer works with latest iphone update.
Love the music, we hope you add more eventually of the same type of relaxing music.
Love the whole game. Should we be a five star.
Where has this game been hiding? We've looked for a sudoku that does the pencil marks for you. But until now, we couldn't find one. We've tried others and immediately deleted them because of that missing aspect. But this one has automatic pencil marks. AND this one is gorgeous And beautifully implemented. It's too fun to play and we've spent too much time with it, leveling up lol One thing that worries us. We can't find a way to replay boards. So when we run out of puzzles in our favorite theme, we're going to be sad. "Sunbathers" is a gorgeous theme with perfectly calibrated colors, and fantastic clarity… They'll never be able to top that one (although ALL of the themes are beautiful and artistic and fun to play). But since we paid for the premium features, we feel that we should be allowed to replay any board. And that would also allow us to try to beat our own best tme for that board. For people like us who will NEVER post scores online, we should be able to have a personal scoreboard, etc. Also, the premium "Branch" feature shouldn't rack up a miss when we try something in the hard levels, just to see if it will work. In other words, if "Branch" is the scratch pad, then "Revert" should be the eraser. And the only penalty should be that, of course, it takes longer to solve the puzzle. Anyway, FANTASTIC app, and the only sudoku in years we've ever played for more than 30 seconds before deleting. This one is a keeper and one of the most gorgeous and well designed apps we've ever seen.
Im a sudoku lover and this game ranks right up there with the best. Good controls and great graphics. If youre a sudoku person you will love this game.
We really love the auto pencil marks and the notification tools. This game is not intuitive for us so we need all the help we can get.
They even have a mode where you use emojis instead of numbers.
We really liked this app. Ive finished all the hard puzzles and there are no more new ones. Looks like nothing has been done on this app in a year.
We're really unsure how to race this. Challenging, for sure. We were enjoying, but then it became quite obvious that they don't know the difference between an "Easy" puzzle and "Hard" one. Usually we sail through "Medium" sudoku puzzles. However we had to give up on an "Easy" sudoku in this brand. We guess that's our only complaint, though.
We recently upgrade from iPhone 8 to iPhone 11 Pro. Please fix the glitch. We get a blank screen when we open the game. This game app is our favorite.
We LOVED this app until one day we opened it (we played this game every day) and the screen was black! We have deleted it and reinstalled it and it still doesnt work! Im so sad.
We are such a big fan of Solitaire Deluxe 2 that we wanted to keep supporting the creator by downloading this sudoku app. We love sudoku so this seemed a perfect fit. we have tried contacting the app makers before making this review, after 2 weeks Ive still had no response. The very first time we downloaded it, all was well. Such a cute app with lots of theme options, we were excited but that didnt last. Soon when we would open the app Id get the initial owl screen, then a black screen would appear saying Id been logged back in…. Only the black screen never goes away. Ive tried deleting it and reinstalling it, same issue. Ive tried restarting our phone… No change. So we wanted to like it, but you cant really enjoy a game if you cant play it. Bummer.
We think your app needs an update! We cant get it to open! We go to the app store and sometimes can get it to open from there. Please fix this.
We highly recommend this version of Sudoku. We enjoy it because the puzzles give us free hours of intellectual play should we want it, and though we don't know anyone, we're part of a team that wins a lot. It also shows how much we personally have contributed to each competition we're a part of. Great fun! Love that it's free without the usual extra fees that seem to be in most other apps. Our only negative comment is that we're running out of puzzles.
A little difficult to see bc of the color. Maybe a lighter color would help.
We love this game! It starts off as pretty easy to play and steadily gets just a little tougher! Great brain puzzles. We love the concept of us having books of Sudoku puzzles and the books are themed! Great art too.
We have several Sodoku apps and this is our favorite. We love that it fills in the pencil marks and lets us get right to the solving.
This app is really FREE and really GREAT. The plethora of puzzles is grouped into "books," with each book showing how much progress has been made in it; a big plus. And we LOVE the team belonging feeling as l play to help our state advance. Get this app; you'll love it.
Probably this best Sudoku app. Easy to pencil in possibilities before finalizing the number. Never crashes and simple to use.
Hours of entertainment! Great game.
Best sudoku game available. We like the background music.
Just starting playing. Already love it.
A great variety of colors and styles behind your traditional sudoku games.
Really enjoy the games. Just enough of a challenge to keep it fun.
Hands down the best sudoku game out there. Has the best variety of puzzles. Has volumes that use different color schemes, emojis, letters, etc. We LOVE THIS GAME.
Fun, fast paced, helps to keep our brain working.
We really like the challenge, it's a little harder than the books we buy.
Best of fun, wonderful array of scenery and ultra competitive against all 50 states.
Multiple hours of brain-stretching fun. However we believe the scoring algorithm is in dire need of revision. E.g. Zero errors should receive significantly more than 15 points and wrong guesses should have larger penalties than those which are currently imposed. As it is currently configured, the game is rife with opportunities to "game" the scoring algorithm.
We play this game every day. We've completed over 300 expert puzzles.
It stops your music when you first open it and you have to pick a puzzle then open you music then go back to the game. Also if you leave a puzzle and come back later after closing the app the pencil marks say x even if they're not wrong.
Would like to see sudoku with letters also. Love the game.
The spectrum of levels is no substitute for difficulty and consistency. This is one of the best.
This would be a great version if a screen didn't pop up every five minutes saying our phone had been chosen as a winner. 30 seconds after that one, another pops up that says we've been given a free spin.
This app keeps us entertained on many a long flight. The interface is beautiful, and there is a plethora of puzzles to hold our interest! PLUS, the app never slows down, crashes or bothers us with ads! Great job.
Very good and challenging sudoku game. It's a good workout for the mind.
Best sudoku we've played. We have a couple of other sudoku games but this one is the best by far.
Challenging but obtainable. Keeps you working.
This is the best Sudoku App we have found. We can use as little or as much help as we want with each puzzle. Plus the different themes makes each challenge fun in their own way.
This version of this great game keeps you challenged. Enjoy.
This is a great game. We like the competition between the states. The premium version is only like three dollars and well worth getting for the extra features. Even if you don't want to use the help/hints, it is worth it to not have to toggle between the pen and pencil. Btw: we've updated our earlier review where we complained about the game crashing. We haven't had the game crash in weeks and we play it a lot.
We love a good challenge, and this definitely provides it. Plus, it's so easy to learn. It's like Pringles: once you pop, you can't stop.
Great game. We love it. The only problem is we ran out of puzzles. We need more.
We like the game but it takes to long to leave a review, can't find a nickname that hasn't been used, and having to start over and over gets frustrating.
Numbers are our thing! We like the competition between the states.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.3.0
- Size: 96.71 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Murka Contracting Limited
Last updated: 9th November 2020 | Genre: Board, Word | Developer: Murka Contracting Limited